Maria Crosas shares the key takeaways she has learned while teaching newsrooms to build chatbots for news.

With more than 500 members and regular elections, even seasoned reporters find it hard to recognise every member of congress. So NYT decided to build the Shazam of Congress.
Being a pioneer can be tough, especially in the world of journalism. To find out just how tough the European Journalism Centre spoke with 35 journalism innovators from 13 countries.
Before launching its pop-up World Cup newsletter, the Post asked readers if they wanted a newsletter covering the day's highlights and what they wanted to see in it.
In this second part of the series, Davide Banis considers the viability of virtual reality as a future path for journalism.
BBC News Labs and The Telegraph have been experimenting with Google’s Amp Stories to bring football fans a more engaging mobile experience.
The satire site has has been ruthlessly roasting Zuckerberg because it says Facebook is killing its traffic.
Meteorologists and weather reporters have understood for years, decades even, how to engage their audiences with a topic that can be full of science jargon and fraught with uncertainty.
From offering flexible subscription prices to making sure you're collecting the right data, these are some of the things publishers should be doing to navigate the challenges of journalism today.
DEN editor Teemu Henriksson talks to Reuters' data journalism editor Janet Roberts.
Despite many thinking that a Spotify-style subscription service would help the media industry out of its current hole, there are still a number of obstacles that are preventing the idea from taking off.
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